A lot of top players crashed out already in the first two rounds of Brisbane! Wozniacki disappointed in the first match of the year against Pervak: 6-2, 3-6, (1)6-7. The Kazach qualifier needed another third set tiebreak to reach the quarterfinal against Urzsula Radwanska: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(6), a very tight match!
The next victim was Stosur who lost against Swedish Arvidsson in two sets: (4)6-7, 5-7. It's gonna be a long way before the Aussie really starts to perform on home soil. Let's hope she'll be better at the Australian Open, we feel with you Sammy...
Also Kvitova is out. She lost in the second round to Pavlyuchenkova: 4-6, 5-7. I still have to decide if the Russian is back or Kvitova isn't quite ready to start off the year with some fabulous wins.
I'm proud to say I was right about Hantuchova. She had a marvelous start of the year by getting past Errani in the second round: 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 to reach the Brisbane quarterfinals. With Sharapova's withdrawal right before the tournament start, Hantuchova now faces lucky loser Tsurenko in the quarters.
We're down to just three seeded players in Brisbane! Serena had straight forward wins to get in the quarterfinals, just losing 7 games in two rounds. She'll play fellow country woman Sloane Stephens.
Azarenka needed to battle through some amazing return shots from Lisicki, but in the end the German didn't have to game to break the number one.
Kerber had quite a scare in the second round! She was a break down in the third set and 5-2 in the deciding tiebreaker against the number 124 in the world, Puerto Rican Puig, to fight back: 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(7). My favorite Kerber pic of the match (gotta love the honesty in that!):
To sum it up for the quarterfinals in Brisbane: Azarenka vs. Pervak, Serena against Stephens, Kerber will play Pavlyuchenkova and Hantuchova vs. Tsurenko. Keep posted, I'm predicting an Azarenka-Serena semifinal so that will be quite a show!
We're down to just three seeded players in Brisbane! Serena had straight forward wins to get in the quarterfinals, just losing 7 games in two rounds. She'll play fellow country woman Sloane Stephens.
Azarenka needed to battle through some amazing return shots from Lisicki, but in the end the German didn't have to game to break the number one.
Kerber had quite a scare in the second round! She was a break down in the third set and 5-2 in the deciding tiebreaker against the number 124 in the world, Puerto Rican Puig, to fight back: 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(7). My favorite Kerber pic of the match (gotta love the honesty in that!):
To sum it up for the quarterfinals in Brisbane: Azarenka vs. Pervak, Serena against Stephens, Kerber will play Pavlyuchenkova and Hantuchova vs. Tsurenko. Keep posted, I'm predicting an Azarenka-Serena semifinal so that will be quite a show!
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